Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ511406
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1995
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The Philosophy and Practice of Patient Control in Hospice: The Dynamics of Autonomy versus Paternalism.
Mesler, Mark A.
Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, v30 n3 p173-89 1994-95
Based on nearly three years of participant-observation research in hospice settings, factors that interfere with the hospice philosophy of providing patient autonomy include efforts at symptom control, patient residence, patient disease state, and staff limit setting. Discusses examples, implications, and staff attempts at solutions. (JPS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Death, Ethics, Higher Education, Hospices (Terminal Care), Patients, Qualitative Research, Terminal Illness
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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